Already, the brain consumed more than a quarter of the body's blood supply... an organ accounting for only a small percentage of body mass. If brains grew larger, and better, then perhaps they would c...
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.
You arrogant little snot (John Hammond)
Something. Of course! he thought. He had touched the screen. It was a touch screen! The red lights around the edges must be infrared sensors. Tim had never seen such a screen, but he’d read about them...
It. The free marketeers will scream, but the fact is, free markets don’t provide safety. Only regulation does that. You want safe food, you better have inspectors. You want safe water, you better have...
Fringe. He smiled. ‘All things
Don’t be stubborn, mister. we haven't got all day.you mean this is a part-time job?
You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.
Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. —GEORGE ORWELL
Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show until we've read the reviews so that we know what to think. We lose the confidence to perce...
Today, everybody expects to be entertained, and they expect to be entertained all the time. Business meetings must be snappy, with bullet lists and animated graphics, so executives aren’t bored. Malls...
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibil...
This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they’ll evolve very...
They’re engineers, she said. She was thinking, What did he expect? He must have dealt with engineers at GM. Emotionally, they’re all thirteen years old, stuck at the age just before boys stop playing...
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. —MARK TWAIN
There is a problem with that island. It is an accident waiting to happen.
The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was.
The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don’t.
The spider venom was Ebola in thirty seconds.
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. For these same apes to imagine they can stabilize this atmosphere is arrogant beyond belief. They can’t cont...